Mount Prospect Academy

**Job Description -Awake Overnight Counselor

Reports to:Awake Overnight Supervisor**

Pay Rate up to $20.00hr

Company Background

Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy, a rapidly growing alliance of nonprofit agency founded in 2003, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a zest for life" and succeed in the business of life.

Mount Prospect Academy (MPA) has evolved to offer a variety of mental and behavioral health support services to a diverse population of hard to treat and difficult to place adolescents. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools. MPA is known for its ability to achieve successful outcomes with difficult-to-serve individuals throughout New England.

Mission:

MPA's mission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency.

Awake Overnight Counselor Responsibilities and Opportunities:

Responsible for service delivery to the students in accordance with program goals and each students Individual Treatment Plan. Connection with students is our primary means to gain understanding, compassion, and forge treatment progress. Providing meaningful and life-relevant programming with engages youth is our primary means of facilitating a positive program culture and making treatment progress possible for our students.

Awake Overnight Responsibilities

• Provide 100% supervision of our students and maintain their safety throughout the overnight shift.
• Assist second shift faculty in the completion of bedtime routine.
• Prepare students for the day during wake up routine and hygiene to ensure seamless transition to first shift.
• Seek information pertinent to students acute issue which may affect the overnight.
• Conduct fifteen-minute bed-checks with compassion and in accordance with policy.
• Provide floating crisis support to students engaging in unsafe behaviors

Encourage student success and engage students

• Practices 100% supervision of students.
• Celebrate student successes, reinforce positive behavior, and encourage growth from adversity.
• Engage and connect with students as a compassionate and understanding professional
• Gain TCI certification, and practice TCI principles.
• Utilize an understanding of ARC to provide a framework for student success.
• Manage students crisis with compassion and understanding, seeking positive outcomes.

Facilitate the residential routine with intention and thoughtful planning.

• Attend work with punctuality, and manage time effectively.
• Participate in pre-shift meetings.
• Plan and execute life-relevant and meaningful programming.
• Internalize daily schedule, show understanding of programmatic rituals and routines.
• Encourage and teach students to engage in stewardship of their environment and themselves.

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